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But later what happened in jail. >> first of all, i think the traffic stop is it's clear this officer loses his temper, intended to issue a warning ticket and when she didn't put the cigarette out, he changed her mind and decided to arrest her. a series of events were mishandled by the police officer. yes, you know she was belligerent verbally with him, but it really is no excuse. you take that all the time. that's a daily occurrence for police officers. they have people argue with you or have a bad attitude. you just take it in stride do your job, if you're going to give a warning, give it an...

Make it as short and sweet as possible. if an officer is telling you to put your cigarette out, you best be sure you put your cigarette out. i don't think ted right to ask her to get out of the car. because not putting out your cigarette is not cause for an arrest. >> but you have to comply with whatever, as a prosecutor, you must comply with a police officer. whether he is right or wrong. you must comply and then you go after -- >> should you comply. >> and then you'll deal with the system and you'll deal with an attorney -- >> i agree should you comply but grounds for arrest is not failing t...

He says she changed lanes. now that's an unusual stop. not many people get pulled over for that so i'm suspicious of that to begin with but if it's true he had the right to stop the vehicle. once he stops the vehicle he has the right legally to make inquiry of the driver and if for any reason he feels threatened by the behavior of the driver he can ask the driver to exit the vehicle. that's legally permissible and that's what he did here. now in terms of putting the cigarette out, there is nothing in the law that says anything about putting cigarettes out, however if subjectively this officer ...

Think you see right out of the gate right out of the gate you see from that dash cam that this could have easily been avoided. there was very little reason that can be gleaned from the dash cam why sandy had to be asked to put her cigarette out, why sandy had to be asked to get out of her car, why sandy had to be subject to the officer pointing a taser at her, why she had to be thrown to the ground and hurt. there are even more question that is have come out of texas than we had when he went down there. now there's the dash cam and we don't know the circumstances surrounding the footage on the...

States. >> hillary, thank you so much for being with us. >> and we want to take you the sandra bland's family. >> -- why sandy had to be asked to put her cigarette out, why sandy had to be asked to get out of her car, why sandy had to be subject to the officer pointing a taser at her, why sandy had to be thrown to the ground and hurt. there are even more questions that have come out of texas that we had when we went down there. now there is the dash cam, and we don't know the circumstances surrounding the footage on the dash cam. we are not in a position where we are going to say that it has b...